JW

Lurking, Snark and Opinions, all mine alone. DMs only from friends and those I follow. No lists. WI. #VoteBlue

[JW @bear7962]

Lawrence O’Donnell 08/08/24

[JW @bear7962]

@ARamblingRoyal Harry is finding it hard to get paid to keep talking about them with no new information.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump has fired all federal employees tasked with prosecuting corruption.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has waived 31 environmental laws to blast barriers and bulldoze roads in Big Bend National Park:

—Clean Air Act
—Endangered Species Act
—National Fish and Wildlife Act
—Safe Drinking Water Act
—Wilderness Act
—Federal Water Pollution Control Act
—Federal Land Policy and Management Act
—Eagle Protection Act
—Farmland Protection Policy Act
—Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
—National Historic Preservation Act
—Energy Independence and Security Act
—Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
—National Park Service General Authorities Act
—Archaeological Resources Protection Act
—National Trails System Act
—Solid Waste Disposal Act
—Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
—Migratory Bird Conservation Act
—Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
—Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act
—Federal Cave Resources Protection Act
—Migratory Bird Treaty Act
—National Environmental Policy Act
—National Park Service Organic Act
—Noise Control Act
—Paleontological Resources Protection Act
—Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
—Antiquities Act
—Wild Horse and Burro Act
—Administrative Procedure Act

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught.

A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.

1. I have the right to do it.
2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump.
3. People don’t care.

That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.

Please stand up and prove him wrong.

[JW @bear7962]

@NovajohnsX07 Grift

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

We had press releases about this, we showed it all to you with their laid-out plan in Project 2025... people scoffed at us.
Well, here is Mike Johnson saying Republicans will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year.
Good luck.

[JW @bear7962]

@Lil_Fen 💔🫂

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

INCREÍBLE: Según Zohran Mamdani, los musulmanes son las verdaderas víctimas del 11 de septiembre porque la gente fue demasiado cruel con ellos después del ataque terrorista.

Nueva York eligió a este tipo de alcalde. Madre mía.

[JW @bear7962]

@unreMARKLEble Didn’t she wear the same shoes to weddings during her last pregnancy?

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.

This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

[JW @bear7962]

@orionsangel1111 🙏🏻🫂

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A Palestinian Islamic preacher in Jerusalem sends a message to the ‘Queers for Palestine’ in the West:

“When Palestine is free, not a single homosexual will be allowed to live in our pure land.

Such perverted abominations will not be accepted among us!”

Happy Pride Month! 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Velshi: “What if I told you this? The Trump administraction had ALREADY spent 50 TIMES that much in taxpayer money to build his ballroom? What if I told you Trump had already taken $50 billion out of the U.S. treasury and spent it, all as part of what looks very much like a pay to play scheme to finance his vanity project? And I’m not making this up, a brand new report from the government watchdog group Public Citizen looked into the private donors who are supposedly funding the Trump ballroom as a gift. Guess what their investigation found? ‘More than half of the publicly identified donors…have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more $50 billion during the past six months.’ The report also found that most of the same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing and that some have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term.”🙄

[JW @bear7962]

@sheilaMol1 🫂

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired. 

Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there. 

She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office. 

A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

A Palestinian Muslim leader openly admitted that they are celebrating the fantastic “gains” Islam achieved through the rape, murder, and kidnapping of over 1,000 Jews on October 7 (Al-Aqsa Flood).

He glorifies the massacre of Jews as a major victory for Islam, claiming it was worth all the destruction in Gaza. According to him, the complete destruction of Israel and the annihilation of Jews may require the sacrifice of up to one million Muslim martyrs “for the liberation of Al-Aqsa.”

Islam is the obstacle to peace in the middle.

Hamas is not a “resistance”; it is a death cult.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🚨 Trump's new Medicaid rules just made it official: having cancer is not enough to be exempt from work requirements. You have to PROVE cancer is stopping you from working. While you're in chemo.

This week, the Trump administration released its final 400-page rule on how states must enforce the Medicaid work requirements that were buried inside last year's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Starting January 1, 2027, most low-income adults on Medicaid must prove every single month they are working, volunteering, or attending school for at least 80 hours — or lose their coverage.

For months, advocates for cancer patients and people living with HIV had been pushing for a blanket medical exemption. What they got instead was a trap. The new rule ties the definition of "medically frail" — the exemption category — directly to a person's ability to work. That means cancer patients who are still capable of working, even in between chemo rounds, do not automatically qualify. A woman with early-stage breast cancer receiving radiation treatment? May not qualify. A man living with HIV who takes medication and still reports to work? No exemption.

And here's the part that should stop you cold: Harvard health policy professor Adrianna McIntyre told reporters that even cancer patients who ARE technically exempt could still lose coverage — because the paperwork process is so complex that "a recently diagnosed cancer patient who is employed might lose Medicaid coverage due to errors in completing the necessary paperwork." Cancer will not wait while a Medicaid office sifts through forms.

The American Cancer Society ran the numbers. Researchers at the University of Chicago published a study in JAMA Oncology projecting that over 1 million mammograms and colorectal and lung cancer screenings will be missed within the first two years of these rules. That translates to more than 2,300 undetected cancer cases — hundreds at advanced stages — and an estimated 155 avoidable deaths from just three types of cancer alone.

A coalition of 48 patient advocacy groups signed a joint statement calling the rule "life-threatening." The American Academy of Pediatrics said it will "harm those whom Medicaid is intended to support." The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute's director said bluntly: "We will lose individuals from Medicaid, and many will become ill and die as a result."
68 million Americans depend on Medicaid. The CBO says at least 5 million will lose coverage. And Dr. Oz went on TV to defend it by saying Medicaid recipients watch too much television.

[JW @bear7962]

@thedubhdog 💔🫂

[JW @bear7962]

@AabtKevin @Osint613 There are actually rules of warfare that prohibit building these sites in civilian areas and using civilian areas to disguise as well as using the civilians as a shield.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Trump Just Rewrote One Of His Biggest Campaign Messages.

When asked about getting the U.S. involved in another conflict, Trump said:

"I didn't guarantee no war."

That's notable because "no new wars" wasn't some obscure talking point.

It was one of the central arguments used to contrast Trump with previous presidents.

Now he's arguing he never made the promise in the first place.